📢 PhD vacancy Are you interested in understanding how families, schools, and neighborhoods *jointly* shape educational outcomes? Eva Jaspers, @glorenz.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD candidate to work on this topic at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. 🔗 More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

💥New OA paper: tinyurl.com/yckfwmzb with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and Meta van der Linden ✅What influences minority youth discrimination perceptions? We find that parental experiences of discrimination predict children's perceptions, even 8 years later! 📑Give it a read for the full results!

@imiscoe.bsky.social conference happened last week and it was lovely Had the pleasure to discuss papers from a super cool panel on the "integration" paradox (with less and less integration in there) and took with me inspiration for writing the last chapter of my dissertation (!!!)

Qu'est-ce qui sort jeudi? Fait 600 pages? avec 35 auteurs? A partir d'une enquête de 27 000 personnes? (et qui ne sera sans doute pas lu par la plupart des commentateurs de plateaux?) www.librairiesindependantes.com/product/9782...

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

Strictly speaking, a postdoc is just a doc who posts

My first paper appears in the @europeansocreview.bsky.social February issue (a nice birthday gift to myself), in great company with cool papers on boundary-making by @mireiatriguero.bsky.social and discrimination by Martin Aranguren. Check them out here: academic.oup.com/esr/issue

✨ Academic life goal achieved: interviewed about my research for Al Jazeera! @aljazeera.com I discuss research on turnout amongst Muslims, voting for DENK and I bust the myth that Muslims vote for the PVV Watch the full item here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqF... links to research in below 👇🧵

📢 New OA Paper Does education similarly foster reports of discrimination for women and ethno-racial minorities? @chlolv.bsky.social and co-authors try to answer this question, extending previous findings on the integration paradox with French survey data. 📃Read at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

📢 First thesis paper is out! In November 2022 I started my Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht. 📃 Today, my first paper is available on the website of the European Sociological Review (url.td/Q7kIJ). I love this paper and hope you will too. I guess I like to take 3 years to publish things. 👩‍🎓😅

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

📢 Job vacancy 📢 📍 Sociology Department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 👩‍🎓 Assistant Professor specialized in migration/integration/polarization/stratification ⏰ Until 29th of September ☑️Teaching in Dutch is required 📃 More info at www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

📢 Call for abstracts - Disentangling the integration paradox ☀️ Destination: IMISCOE! 🧩 Join our panels at IMISCOE - with @sbvanoosten.bsky.social, @nellageurts.bsky.social & @genoni.bsky.social - to further our efforts in debunking, developing and driving studies on the integration paradox! 1/3

@chlolv.bsky.social and colleagues show that both parents and children tend to underestimate the educational distance between themselves and their family members. Read the full article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💥Today, 3 years after I graduated from my research master, my (revamped) master thesis got published at @ssreditorial.bsky.social under the name "Who do they think you are? Inconsistencies in self- and proxy-reports of education within families". Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... (OA)

On June 18th, @nellageurts.bsky.social @genoni.bsky.social and I hosted the Integration Paradox Workshop @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social! 10 presentations 📃, with amazing scholars 👩‍🎓, discussing the discrepancy between so-called "objective" integration and belonging/discrimination. Let’s recap!

It was the greatest pleasure to organize the Integration Paradox Workshop with @nellageurts.bsky.social and @genoni.bsky.social! Maximum stress levels but top research and lovely people across the board. Looking forward to doing it again (in a long long time) #DIP

💥 Join @nellageurts.bsky.social, @genoni.bsky.social, @cdiehl.bsky.social, and me at a roundtable to unravel the Integration Paradox! Whether an expert or new to the topic we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts! 📍Janskerkhof 3 1.09 ⏰14.35 #MigrationSocietalChangeConference

Thanks @genoni.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social @chlolv.bsky.social for organizing this great workshop on disentangling the integration paradox in wonderful, lively and bike-friendly #Utrecht.

We had great discussions today which we will take to and share during our roundtable tomorrow at the Migration and Societal Change Conference in Utrecht - come join us at 14:35 at Janskerkhof 2-3, room 1.09! With @cdiehl.bsky.social @genoni.bsky.social and @chlolv.bsky.social!

Derrière le positionnement de J. Bardella sur l'euthanasie il y a bien le basculement des catholiques pratiquants vers le RN www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Had the pleasure to participate yesterday in a workshop from Halleh Ghorashi on Engaged Transformative Scholarship organized by the Migration and Societal Change PhDs including @educampbell.bsky.social

🚀 Join our Summer School on Migration, Integration & Ethnic Relations! 🌍📚 📅 July 7–18, 2025 | 📍 Utrecht University 🔍 Explore key debates on migration, integration & intergroup relations. 👩‍🏫 Taught by 9 experts | 10 sessions 📝 Apply by May 31! More info & registration: 🔗 tinyurl.com/2d2machk

Still three weeks to apply! Looking forward to your contributions.

Taurus: There will be some nice presents for you under the tree this year! Sadly, the ability to become a functioning adult won’t be one of them so your life will remain a mess.

🚨 ATTENTION THEORYCELS: PEAK FOUCAULT HAS BEEN REACHED 🚨 ANNUAL CITATIONS FOR FOUCAULT HAVE BEEN IN DECLINE SINCE 2020 YOU CAN STOP PRETENDING TO HAVE READ FOUCAULT, AND INSTEAD PRETEND TO BE ABOVE READING FOUCAULT

New preprint! For the forthcoming handbook on computational social science edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social, we reviewed the role of behavioral experiments in CSS, highlighting three ways in which experiments can be used in conjunction with ABM doi.org/10.31219/osf... #computationalsocialscience

Looking for an expert? Women Also Know Stuff offers a searchable database and promotes the work of women for political science. #PoliSky #Umich The exec committee includes CPS's Cesi Cruz & alumnae @giselasin.bsky.social and @jardina.bsky.social

Reminder: From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR! Find out more at: academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions

just got a rejection on a big grant I spent a ton of time on this summer and I'm just sharing this because failure is so incredibly common in academia and I think we would all be a little less anxious if we knew that for every one yes that we see celebrating online, there've been five nos.

A few days back, someone posted this www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingTo...

“Almost all the children (96%) felt their death was imminent, and 49% actually wished to die.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Today CEPR and Sciences Po paid tribute to the late Philippe Martin. A brilliant economist and a guiding force in building and nurturing CEPR, his legacy has left an indelible mark on the world of economic research. #EconSky 📈📉

Me trying to write an article

Me when I find out all my friends get their recipes from the NYT cooking section

💥 Cool Paper Published 💥 H. McAvay & M. Safi show, w/French data, that the gap between individual and group-based perceptions of discrimination is predicted by far-right political ideas, ethnic identification and lower education for majority French ppl - a "reversed" integration paradox

Breaking news: Syrian rebels have seized Damascus and toppled the Assad dynasty www.ft.com/content/a953...

Sneak preview of ny comments: read it!

Wondering what it’s like to go to the Supreme Court? I sat with trans teen L.W. during the historic oral arguments: wapo.st/4fjKpFn

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

If you are an early career researcher studying diversity-related topics, have a look at the CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity fellowship! Applications are due on Dec 12. Work on your future research lines, receive mentorship, and meet likeminded scholars. 🙏🏽 casbs.stanford.edu/call-applica...

Why does integration sometimes lead to more #discrimination? In our survey experiment on the “integration paradox“, immigrants & descendants who learned about research on discrimination against immigrants were (20% of SD) more likely to disclose personal experiences. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Check out this great presentation by Bocconi PhD @bogatyrev.bsky.social next week on the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia ⤵️

“The restitution of these art objects is an important step…These objects do not belong here in the Netherlands but in Indonesia. They are part of Indonesia’s cultural heritage and it is time for them to return to the place where they belong, and where they have meaning for the people.”

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Join us as an Associate Professor in Social Demography, in association with @stjohnsox.bsky.social. We're open to a range of specialisations: family, fertility, gender, migration, population health, inequalities & more 🌍 Apply now ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

We study how vertical (level-focused) & horizontal (field-centred) occupation-education mismatch show distinct patterns and relate to distinct mechanisms among immigrants and descendants: international credential recognition for the former and initial sorting into fields of study for the latter

For my PhD, I gathered some really good data with oversamples of ethnoracially minoritised citizens of France, Germany and the Netherlands. With qs about discrimination, political attitudes, voting and feelings of representation. Here is a thread with all the datasets. Please share widely!